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In the realm of artificial intelligence, the emergence of foundation models, backed by high computing capabilities and extensive data, has been revolutionary. Segment Anything Model (SAM), built on the Vision Transformer (ViT) model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinyang Pu , Hecheng Jia , Linghao Zheng , Feng Wang , Feng Xu

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has achieved impressive results for natural image segmentation with input prompts such as points and bounding boxes. Its success largely owes to massive labeled training data. However, directly applying SAM to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Jin Ye , Junlong Cheng , Jianpin Chen , Zhongying Deng , Tianbin Li , Haoyu Wang , Yanzhou Su , Ziyan Huang , Jilong Chen , Lei Jiang , Hui Sun , Min Zhu , Shaoting Zhang , Junjun He , Yu Qiao

Background: The segment-anything model (SAM), introduced in April 2023, shows promise as a benchmark model and a universal solution to segment various natural images. It comes without previously-required re-training or fine-tuning specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Sheng He , Rina Bao , Jingpeng Li , Jeffrey Stout , Atle Bjornerud , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Image segmentation is a critical task in microscopy, essential for accurately analyzing and interpreting complex visual data. This task can be performed using custom models trained on domain-specific datasets, transfer learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Kamyar Barakati , Utkarsh Pratiush , Sheryl L. Sanchez , Aditya Raghavan , Delia J. Milliron , Mahshid Ahmadi , Philip D. Rack , Sergei V. Kalinin

Learning to segmentation without large-scale samples is an inherent capability of human. Recently, Segment Anything Model (SAM) performs the significant zero-shot image segmentation, attracting considerable attention from the computer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Chuanfei Hu , Tianyi Xia , Shenghong Ju , Xinde Li

Vision foundation models such as Contrastive Vision-Language Pre-training (CLIP) and Segment Anything (SAM) have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance on image classification and segmentation tasks. However, the incorporation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Runnan Chen , Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Nenglun Chen , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Tongliang Liu , Wenping Wang

Large-scale vision models like SAM have extensive visual knowledge, yet their general nature and computational demands limit their use in specialized tasks like medical image segmentation. In contrast, task-specific models such as U-Net++…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Yuchen Mao , Hongwei Li , Yinyi Lai , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Peng Qi , Yunjie Yang , Chengjia Wang

Multi-modality image fusion, particularly infrared and visible, plays a crucial role in integrating diverse modalities to enhance scene understanding. Although early research prioritized visual quality, preserving fine details and adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Guanyao Wu , Haoyu Liu , Hongming Fu , Yichuan Peng , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Recently, large-scale pre-trained models such as Segment-Anything Model (SAM) and Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have demonstrated remarkable success and revolutionized the field of computer vision. These foundation vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shichao Dong , Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin

Promptable foundation models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) produce high-quality masks but remain semantically blind, relying on external prompts to specify categories. Existing vision-language approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shayan Jalilian , Abdul Bais

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong capabilities in broad knowledge representation, yet they are inherently deficient in pixel-level perceptual understanding. Although the Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hao Wang , Limeng Qiao , Zequn Jie , Zhijian Huang , Chengjian Feng , Qingfang Zheng , Lin Ma , Xiangyuan Lan , Xiaodan Liang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM), a foundation model for general image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across numerous natural image segmentation tasks. However, SAM's performance significantly declines when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Cheng Chen , Juzheng Miao , Dufan Wu , Zhiling Yan , Sekeun Kim , Jiang Hu , Aoxiao Zhong , Zhengliang Liu , Lichao Sun , Xiang Li , Tianming Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng , Quanzheng Li

Automated segmentation is a fundamental medical image analysis task, which enjoys significant advances due to the advent of deep learning. While foundation models have been useful in natural language processing and some vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Jichen Yang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Foundation models for image segmentation have shown strong generalization in natural images, yet their applicability to 3D medical imaging remains limited. In this work, we study the zero-shot use of Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Miquel Lopez Escoriza , Pau Amargant Alvarez

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) emerges as a powerful vision foundation model to generate high-quality 2D segmentation results. This paper aims to generalize SAM to segment 3D objects. Rather than replicating the data acquisition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jiazhong Cen , Jiemin Fang , Zanwei Zhou , Chen Yang , Lingxi Xie , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wei Shen , Qi Tian

Segmentation in medical imaging is a critical component for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of various diseases and medical conditions. Presently, the medical segmentation landscape is dominated by numerous specialized deep…

Foundational models such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) are gaining traction in medical imaging segmentation, supporting multiple downstream tasks. However, such models are supervised in nature, still relying on large annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Aishik Konwer , Zhijian Yang , Erhan Bas , Cao Xiao , Prateek Prasanna , Parminder Bhatia , Taha Kass-Hout

Current state-of-the-art methods for panoptic segmentation require an immense amount of annotated training data that is both arduous and expensive to obtain posing a significant challenge for their widespread adoption. Concurrently, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Markus Käppeler , Kürsat Petek , Niclas Vödisch , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a critical task in the development of video perception and understanding. The Segment-Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), released by Meta AI, is the current state-of-the-art architecture for end-to-end VOS. SAM 2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Clayton Bromley , Alexander Moore , Amar Saini , Doug Poland , Carmen Carrano

Unsupervised semantic segmentation aims to categorize each pixel in an image into a corresponding class without the use of annotated data. It is a widely researched area as obtaining labeled datasets is expensive. While previous works in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yau Shing Jonathan Cheung , Xi Chen , Lihe Yang , Hengshuang Zhao